SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Product owner, 14+ years of experience in Information technology including 8 years experience as Agile/scrum master and more than 3+ years of experience leading and serving agile teams, delivering medium to large scale projects in various domains.
• Handled Agile Transformation for Financial, Retails and Healthcare Organizations from Waterfall to Agile and Scaled Agile based on SAFe 4 & 4.5
• Experience includes Scrum based iterative incremental development showing increasing business value every Sprint.
• Equipped with strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development.
• Exemplified ability to grasp new things quickly, as demonstrated by seamless transitions made between several technologies, tools, and libraries both in development and project management roles.
• Team player with interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships across org levels.
• Advanced level of using JIRA to create Dashboard/Structure Board/Scrum Boards and Confluence for all the documenting and training materials.
• Experienced in techniques such as SPRINT planning, Product Backlog management, Agile estimation, daily Scrum, metrics such as Burn - down & Velocity charts, Sprint summary report, Sprint review/retro meetings, etc.
• Implemented Agile deployments leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Comprehensive experience in Root-cause analysis, Feasibility studies, Confidential analysis, Impact analysis, Risk analysis.
• Ability to manage (Multiple) project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Able to work in a team oriented environment using qualitative and quantitative skills to develop, implement, and integrate strategies.
• Servant Leader and self-starter with excellent communication, coordination, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.
• Promoted the Agile process within the companies, to include responsibility for expanding the understanding and practice of agile principles throughout the entire organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Six Sigma, Joint Application Development (JAD) Change Mgt. Tools JIRA Rational Clear Quest, SM7, Service Now

Business ModelingTools: Confluence, Rational Rose, Invision

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Rally, ALM

Testing Tools: QTP, ALM and QC, TFS Selenium, TestNG

MS Office Suite: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Scrum Master

Confidential, OH

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Scrum Master for two Scrum teams, developing Android - mobile applications.
• Facilitate Scrum Meetings such as Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint demo and Retrospectives.
• Working with the product owners and product managers to ensure the product backlogs are ready for the next sprint and facilitate preparation and readiness for PI planning and demo presentations.
• Strong skills in Analyzing work intake & developing Epics/User Stories.
• Updated daily scrum board and Removed impediments and manage Sprint Backlog and Prioritized Stories.
• Working with teams involved in highly iterative and interactive development cycles while collaborating with team members such as software developers, architects, interface designers, product owners, testers, and any involved stakeholders.
• Conduct coaching session with team members both onshore and offshore in Safe Agile environment.
• Made sure team was aligned with OKR (Objective Key Results), SLA, SLO's of teams we support.
• Used JIRA software to log user stories, epics, task, create reports of velocity and retrospectives.
• Strong knowledge in defining Definition of Ready, Acceptance Criteria & Definition of Done and resolving pediments within the SLA s
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams on the ART, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing Encouraging multiple teams to work vigorously to their full potential, but also protecting them by preventing over-commitment to what is truly achievable within any given time-boxed sprint cycle.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting on team progress using sprint reports, velocity charts, burn-down, and burn-down graphs, control charts, and commitment/completion percentage trend diagrams to help the team focus on incremental improvements.
• Used Confluence for document sharing and team collaboration updates.
• Worked with the offshore development team during the design phase of SDLC and delivery requirements.
• Android Mobile Responsive Design working closely with the UI / UX design team to Ensure Responsive Design requirements are met.

Professional Scrum Master

Confidential, OH

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum, sprint review, product backlog refinement meetings, and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Observation of team dynamics, to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve.
• Used JIRA to maintain the product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports, burn down charts and velocity reports.
• Working with teams involved in highly iterative and interactive development cycles while collaborating with team members such as software developers, architects, interface designers, product owners, testers, and any involved stakeholders.
• Scheduling, coordinating and facilitating sprint planning, daily scrum huddles, backlog refinement, story grooming, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Worked on SAFe framework with other scrum teams on the ART, worked with Release Train Engineer, System Architects and system Team for Infrastructure requirements and to support integration testing Encouraging multiple teams to work vigorously to their full potential, but also protecting them by preventing over - commitment to what is truly achievable within any given time-boxed sprint cycle.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting on team progress using sprint reports, velocity charts, burn-down, and burn-down graphs, control charts, and commitment/completion percentage trend diagrams to help the team focus on incremental improvements.
• Ensured the teams demonstrate principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility as well as the agile values of feedback.
• Coached Technical Products Owners in the exercise of healthy backlog refinement and prioritization practices.

Professional Scrum Master

Confidential, Cincinnati-OH

Responsibilities:

• Managed dependencies between other scrum teams, and other non - agile waterfall teams
• Instrumental in ensuring Dev team setting up System Configuration as company information and users in the system and defined roles, profiles, territory setup for the particular user.
• Organized & facilitated sprint planning, encouraged team members to make progress to goals each day.
• User stories were defined for Organization Data Management, Contact Data Management, Tour Planning, Management, Feedback Survey, Sample Management and Order Capture.
• Participated in project design review meetings to prioritize and design the test documents.
• Worked closely with System Analysts, Project Leaders and developers to analyze the Business Requirements, Business Technical Specifications and Use Case Models.
• Analyzed and evaluated customer business problems and developed solutions to meet business requirements.
• Reviewed business processes to assess adherence to Internal and global requirements.
• Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Engaging with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum framework in the organization.
• Responsible for ownership and management of project budget and preparation of the backlog for planning
• Assisted feature breakdown sessions, backlog refinement and team learning and events.

Scrum Master / Product Owner

Confidential, Cincinnati OH

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Coached the Scrum team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
• Identified potential problems, risks, and issues and demonstrate corrective response utilizing Agile principles and practices
• Partner closely with project/program leadership and teams, scrum master and technical resources
• Ensured the correct data and tools are in place for transparency into the backlog and for exposing velocity for forecasting delivery.
• Ensured work gets done reliably and with the appropriate priority and ensured features and deliverables are clearly understood
• Ensured timely project reporting, such as burn - downs and status updates.
• Experienced in preparing project plan, WBS, resource plan and activity duration estimation, product backlog and iteration backlog. Exposure to Microsoft Project Plan tool.
• Helped strengthen healthy team dynamics and cross-functional collaboration

Scrum Master

Confidential, KY

Responsibilities:

• Managed complex cross - functional projects
• Developed templates for documentation, Test strategy, Test schedules, Task assignments, Status reporting.
• Excellent understanding of business requirements gathering, translating requirements into specifications/user stories and application design.
• Applied Scrum / Agile iterative development processes to drive on-time and on-budget delivery of global retail projects
• Conducted Agile Coaching & SCRUM Ceremonies including Grooming, Standup's, Reviews 33w2& Retrospectives, burn down chart reviews, product demos, process documentation, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment, and closures.
• Participated in building operational programs that are scalable, defining roadmaps
• Create project plans detailing tasks, estimates of effort, resource requirements, quality requirements and metrics, and organizational change management activities

Scrum Master / Business Analyst

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and user stories are ready for sizing.
• Managed the product backlog, burn up/down charts, velocity and task break down.
• Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 30%.
• Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Trained new team members and transitioned teams to the agile framework with a scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues were resolved.
• Proactively collaborate with other scrum masters and agile coaches across the organization.
• Motivated the team to come up with a quality shippable product that met the product goal (definition of done).
• Expertly promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation.

Lead Business Data Analyst

Confidential, OH

Responsibilities:

• Developed negotiating strategies and positions by studying the integration of new venture with company strategies and operations; examined risks and potentials; estimated partners' needs and goals
• Maintained program level business and technical issues tracker, including appropriate follow - ups in order to achieve resolution and decision making
• Identified high-level business requirements through interviews and surveys of the organization's master servicing business unit
• Identify trendsetter ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements; tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments
• Locate or propose potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities. Training computer users testing and writing test cases.